Press release attached to back of photo: "A roughneck fits a new Hughes Jet bit into the drill collar preparatory to running the drill stem into the hold. In 1953 more than 500,000 rock bits produced by the Hughes Tool Company of Houston, Texas, were used in the United States alone. The invention of the rock bit by Howard R. Hughes, Sr., made it possible to drill far deeper into the earth beyond the shallow oil deposits which are now practically exhausted. Without rotary drilling equipment of this kind the world might revert to a horse and buggy economy."

]]>Photgraph of people attending an unidentified banquet, circa 1940s-1950shttp://digital.library.unlv.edu/u?/hughes,4392013-10-21T00:00:00-07:00

A group of people attending an unidentified banquet, including reporters.

Transcribed from press release: "HUGHES TEST DERRICK This 118-foot field-size oil derrick tower above a block-long laboratory in Houston, Texas, where the Hughes Tool Company simulates every drilling condition in the world in order to produce tough, long-lasting drill bits for the oil industry. Rock bits are responsible for tapping of deep oil fields where today 90 per cent of the world's oil is found."

]]>Photograph of a workspace, circa 1930s-1950shttp://digital.library.unlv.edu/u?/hughes,6672014-05-05T00:00:00-07:00

Black and white image of what appears to be someone's office or workspace.